Unknowns comments on A Proof of Occam's Razor - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 August 2010 03:10:11PM 5 points [-]

The fact that the proof uses only very weak properties of the notion of "complexity" does not show that the proof is invalid. In fact, it suggests (not with certainty) the opposite: that an even stronger result could be proven.

Comment author: Unknowns 10 August 2010 05:03:11PM 1 point [-]

Yes, it is likely that a stronger result is possible. However, it is difficult to make it stronger while satisfying my conditions (true in all possible worlds; true according to every logically consistent assignment of priors).